The Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST) has 26 colleges, 1 teaching department, 1 school, and 7 research institutes. The school has 3,852 faculty members, including 2,459 full-time teachers and 1,360 professors and associate professors. There are 9 academicians in the school, including 3 full-time academicians and 2 academicians, 6 foreign academicians.
At present, KUST is home to over 53,000 students, including 585 international students. The university has 32,923 undergraduate students and 19,354 graduate students. The International Students Studying Medicine at Kunming University of Science and Technology are from different countries e.g. Pakistan, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Indonesia, Lesotho, Vietnam, Liberia, and Sudan.